Who is in Christ does not look back - 2

* Luís Alberto Alves

Unfortunately some people, because of the struggles and weakness of spirit, get cold. It is in this context that the warm enters. It is someone who was hot one day, preached the Word, evangelized, picked up microphone and sang praises, went out in the streets in search of the lost. For lack of spiritual accompaniment, and lack of knowledge of a life on the altar of the Lord, faith weakened. It has become lukewarm, for it still has moments of spiritual warmth, and then the temperature of the spirit falls.

Satan cleverly throws his fiery darts to attain vanity of people. It presents the world as something good and beautiful. It sells the idea that it is not necessary to wait for eternal happiness in Heaven. Through drugs and depraved sexual life there is the possibility of having good moments here on Earth. It is when he insists on the false logic of the festivals of this world, where wrong is right and wrong right. Again Jesus Christ, through James, chapter 4, verse 4, rebukes the devil when he says: "Do you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever wants to be friends with the world becomes an enemy of God. "

The world of which Jesus speaks, are the evil customs adopted by the population. It is considered prostitution as a way of life. Crime as a way to make money. Drug addiction in search of peace and happiness. Sexual perversion in the search for pleasure to satisfy the desires of the flesh. If it rules as a rule of personal and professional conduct the bad as something good. To make matters worse, some Christians think they can serve God and the world. They are in the hands of the devil and imagine themselves free.

In Matthew, chapter 12, verses 43-45, the story of a man who was freed from an unclean spirit is described. But he hesitated and the demon came back bringing seven other spirits worse than he and the state of that person was worse than the beginning. The lime shovel is in 2 Peter, chapter 2, verses 20/22. In this text Jesus speaks of someone who got rid of the contaminations of the world through knowledge of the Word of the Lord, but returned to evil. The Lord says that this person should not even have known Him, because it is the same as the dog that returned to eat the vomit itself or the clean pig that has moved again in the lava to get dirty again.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor